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The bus driver, who was married and has three children and two step children, claimed he was in a “lonely and dark place”.

Judges said the attacks were “mainly non-penetrative”, and allowed a shorter sentence for Loosemore.

‘Let down by the system’

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But while Loosemore will spend less than a decade in prison, his victim has already spent nearly 25 years in a different kind of prison.

Shut out to the rest of the world, Allana turned to drugs and alcohol to dull the pain. She cut herself repeatedly, and tried to take her own life several times.

When she turned 21, she barricaded herself at home and set it on fire. Her mum smashed through a window to get at her - but even then Allana felt she couldn’t speak out.

After hearing about the appeal, Allana told the Bristol Post she felt she was “let down by the system”.

She has now written to the Judiciary in hopes of getting an explanation. In her letter, she wrote: “I was shocked to receive notification he had been granted a hearing at the Court of Appeal, not against the conviction but against the length of sentence he received, which he felt was too long.”

After hearing the judges shortened the sentence because they attacks were “mainly non-penetrative”, Allana added: “I am absolutely outraged at the comments that the judges have said.